Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ageless Charmer Maurice Chevalier offered in Manhattan a restrained Gallic comment on le rock 'n' roll americain: "It belongs to the fever of this time, but it will pass because you can't spend a lifetime doing that...
...Church in the queue with the rest of the pitchmen who clamor for our attention?" Despite such attacks, British TV is evidently trying to step into what it considers a spiritual vacuum in Britain. Other religious TV shows: a puzzled panel of youngsters alternating bouts of rock 'n' roll with questions to the Moderator of the Church of Scotland ("Why isn't it just as good to pray at home as in church?"), and a guitar-twanging trio of parsons...
Despite its glittering cast and artier-than-thou approach, the show now and again came slowly out of the tube. Not without lively spots (notably a duet of Baby, It's Cold Outside, incongruously teaming Rock Hudson and Mae West, and a song-and-dance routine by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas), it was better organized than in recent years, but still prone to flat jokes and awkward entrances and exits. All the same, with such old-guard purists as Clark Gable, John Wayne and Gary Grant helping the cause of motion pictures, Producer Jerry Wald figured that...
...state administration in 1956: "I know Illinois is a poor little state. You steal this much out of your public treasury there, don't you, and you never miss it." Roared Douglas, with a biting reference to Fulbright's unbroken silence on the segregation issue in Little Rock: "I speak out against these things-and against some of the occurrences in the State of Arkansas...
President Eisenhower's political popularity rating is down five Gallup poll percentage points below his previous low of 57%, recorded just after the 1954 congressional elections and again after the Little Rock segregation crisis last year. Results of last week's survey of opinion on the way Ike is doing...